Transvestua

about gang fights, the motorcycle brigades, vandalism muggings and so on. Who can deny, however, that these events are ever so masculine? Isn't it wonder- ful to think that there is no femininity at all in the little punk who used a razor to slit the seat of a public bus, the top of your convertible parked in the street, or the throat of one of the kids in the neighborhood? He may be a vicious rat, but masculine through and through. He's no sissy, right?

PREMISE #4 Children do not know discretion they will spill daddy's secret to the rest of the family, schoolmates, neighbors et al.

We certainly are scared to death of the little brats. They hold powers of life and death over their parents' heads. It's our own fault. Our grand-parents never had to worry about discretion in their household. They did not think kids were tender and mentally frail. They gave an order and beware of disobedience! None of these threats about cutting allowance or not allowing the kid to go out at night. They just went "wham!" and you couldn't sit down for a week. Brutal? Cruel? Maybe. But EFFECTIVE. If the kid knows his daddy will knock off all his teeth at the first peep about his tran- svestism and no "maybe" about it you bet your life the TV father won't have to worry about his secret. He can wear baby dolls at breakfast if he wants to and put up his hair in curlers while at home and he can be sure that nobody, but nobody, is ever going to hear of it outside the house. It may seem a contradiction to recommend violence to parents while decrying violence as a masculine ideal. But we know that there is nothing like a shot of whiskey to kill that hangover next morning. Besides this "knocking off your teeth" business is only an emergency measure which should be preceded by milder forms of corporal punishment, just enough so that the kid knows you mean what you threaten to do. One of the worst whippings I ever got when I was a little girl, was administered to me by my mother. You